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Japanese astronaut Ayu Yoneda is currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for future space missions.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 3, 2026
今日吃瓜 newest female astronaut wants to speak Japanese on the moon
Ayu Yoneda, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s youngest astronaut, is mission-ready for her first flight.
Boeing under CEO Kelly Ortberg has secured major defense contracts, a Starliner revival and 737 Max clearance that could reverse years of losses if the company executes successfully.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2026
Boeing’s stealth-fighter coup is a turning point
NASA recently threw the embattled Starliner a lifeline by agreeing to use the spacecraft to fly an uncrewed mission to the ISS.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is seen in a "selfie" that it took over a rock nicknamed "Rochette," in September 2021.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars
The rover reached the milestone 5??years into its mission to explore if conditions conducive to microbial life ever existed on Earth’s neighbor.
SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy V3 booster lift off from the company’s launch complex in Starbase, Texas, on Monday.?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2026
SpaceX ushers in a new era and more junk in orbit
The downside to this new era in space exploration is that humans are likely to leave much more debris floating around in orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is launched over the Pacific Ocean from the city of Encinitas in California in April 2024.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2026
U.S. policies under Trump accelerate Europe’s push for space self-reliance
Europe’s moves potentially herald a restructuring of the global space order, with changes that may be difficult to unwind after Trump leaves office.
Toyohiro Akiyama spent nine days in space, broadcasting his zero-gravity experiences live and describing the experiments he conducted.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2026
Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen to go to space, dies at 84
A reporter-turned-farmer, Akiyama had hopes for a younger generation able to think freely.
Chinese-linked hacking campaigns have compromised a string of sensitive U.S. government and private networks in recent years.
WORLD
Aug 27, 2026
U.S. says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Fed and Senate
The hackers have used tools they developed to compromise critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the U.S. and worldwide since at least 2018, an affidavit said.
New research led by NASA scientists looking at five forms of fungi and bacteria indicates that some of them could survive for a time under certain conditions on the lunar surface — a finding that raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the moon.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2026
NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the moon
The finding raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the lunar surface.
SpaceX prepares a Starship rocket at Starbase in Texas on June 11.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2026
SpaceX’s blow-it-up testing won’t fly on Starship
This spending underscores the second obstacle. SpaceX is no longer a private company and has shareholders to please.
Elon Musk at the manufacturing plant for SpaceX in El Segundo, California, on Jan. 9, 2005.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 15, 2026
SpaceX’s unlikely journey from far-out idea to $2 trillion juggernaut
SpaceX’s success has never been a sure thing, and the company has alternated between eye-catching failures and resounding successes.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell at a keynote conference at the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 9, 2026
How SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has achieved Musk’s lofty ambitions
The company’s president has spent 24 years focused on building and selling SpaceX through her engineering expertise and dealmaking ?instincts.
Prada's Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment spacesuit is displayed during a media event in New York on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2026
NASA to wear Prada as luxury group pushes into space industry
The Italian fashion house’s Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment was created in collaboration with Houston-based space ?infrastructure developer Axiom Space.
Axiom Space's latest funding round includes support from new backer MUFG Bank, 今日吃瓜 largest bank, along with existing investors, the startup has said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2026
Axiom Space boosts funding to $525 million with MUFG Bank as new investor
The startup is among several firms competing to build a commercial replacement to the International Space Station, which is set to be decommissioned by 2030.
今日吃瓜 push into space-based solar power could reshape the future of global energy and position the country ahead of the U.S. and China in the next phase of the space race.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 31, 2026
A space race the Land of the Rising Sun is winning
Japan takes the lead in space-based solar power exploration.
A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 12th test flight at Starbase, Texas, on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 23, 2026
SpaceX’s Starship flight hits most targets in pre-IPO test
The outcome could boost investor confidence ahead of SpaceX’s initial public offering next month, expected to be the largest in history.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, at the Viva Technology conference in Paris in June 2023
BUSINESS / Tech
May 7, 2026
SpaceX IPO gives Musk sweeping power and curbs shareholder rights
The rocket maker has adopted ?corporate governance policies that will erode typical shareholder protections in unprecedented ways.
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2026
It’s up to SpaceX and Blue Origin to stick the moon landing
NASA is betting on SpaceX and Blue Origin to build lunar landers for the Artemis III mission next year, paving the way for the first mission back to the moon since 1972.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday.
WORLD
Apr 19, 2026
Blue Origin launches rocket with used booster for first time
The novel recycling approach comes amid fierce competition between Bezos’s firm and fellow tech titan Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has also recovered a booster.
A young boy wearing an astronaut costume cheers next to a woman waving a flag as they watch a live broadcast of the return of the Artemis II crew members to Earth at the San Diego Air and Space Museum during a watch party for the crew's splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, in San Diego on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 11, 2026
Artemis II lunar mission draws flood of conspiracy theories
Hashtags such as “fake space” and “fake NASA” have gained traction online since NASA’s lunar fly-by sent astronauts farther from Earth than any human before.
Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 11, 2026
‘Howl at the moon’: NASA’s bid to boost space enthusiasm
From social media posts clipped from livestreamed events with the astronauts to an extraordinary portfolio of photos, viewers caught an eyeful of Artemis II.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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